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Selling Your Home in Jester Estates
Plan A/B/C pricing, video and photos, ads that run until it sells, and an update on your home every Monday.
Selling Your Home in Jester Estates: what's different here
Selling in Jester Estates means competing for the buyers who already want this part of Austin. Jester homes sell on setting, privacy and the views from Jester Point, and slope, retaining walls and drainage need attention before a buyer's inspector finds them.
That's why I start with where your home stands against the others a buyer will see, not with a number pulled from a website.
Talk about Jester Estates
Why Jester Estates sellers work with me
I grew up in Northwest Austin, have lived here since 1976 and have lived on the Mountain in the Spicewood Estates area since 2004. When I price a home in Jester Estates, I'm weighing what buyers here actually pay for. Jester is Austin ISD (Hill, Murchison, Anderson), wooded and quiet, with lots that back to preserve land and an optional Jester Club separate from the HOA.
How I handle it in Jester Estates
- A real market evaluation of what has sold and what is under contract in and around Jester Estates, with three pricing plans, A, B and C. How pricing works.
- Presentation built for the buyers who look here: professional photos, floor plans, a narrated video walkthrough and a 3D tour. See presentation.
- Reach beyond the MLS: a Coming Soon campaign, Facebook and Instagram ads that run until it sells, and Just Listed postcards and Pick Your Neighbor letters around Jester Estates. See the marketing.
- A Grand Opening open house in the first two weekends and a Monday Morning Market Update on your home every week. See the launch.
More about Jester Estates
For the full picture of the neighborhood, see living in Jester Estates. Questions about selling your home here? Call me at (512) 698-3525.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you price a home in Jester Estates?
I start with what has sold and what is under contract in and around Jester Estates, adjust for what makes your home different, and lay out three pricing plans. I tell you which I'd choose, and you decide.
Do you hold open houses in Jester Estates?
Yes. Every listing gets a Grand Opening open house within the first two weekends it's on the market.
Jester Estates
What selling your home looks like in Jester Estates
A wooded hillside neighborhood off 2222, backing to preserve land, with the Jester Club's pool and tennis courts.
- The homes
- About 900 or more homes, built mostly in the 1980s and 1990s by national and regional builders, from ranch homes on quarter-acre lots to large custom multi-level homes on an acre or more, many backing to woods and preserve. Multi-level floor plans are common because the lots demand them. Jester Point holds the higher lots and the long Hill Country views. The Jester Club is separate from the Jester HOA: membership runs about $300 a year for the pool, two lighted tennis courts on Jester Boulevard, a basketball court, a pavilion and a playscape with a zipline.
- Schools people ask about
- Austin ISD, not Round Rock ISD: Hill Elementary, then Murchison Middle School (IB Middle Years) and Anderson High School (IB).
- Getting around
- The main entrance is Jester Boulevard off 2222; a back entrance comes in off Loop 360 through the Lakewood neighborhood. Quick access to the Arboretum and the Great Hills office corridor, a straightforward run to the Domain, and a manageable drive to the Apple Parmer campus.
- Nearby
- The West Bull Creek greenbelt and Balcones Canyonlands Preserve land along Bull Creek. A trail from Spicewood Springs Road runs through St. Edward's Park and a bird sanctuary and comes out near the top of Jester Estates. Many lots back to protected land that cannot be built on.
- The trade-off
- Quiet, wooded and private, with no retail and no through road. Steep lots bring complex foundations, retaining walls and drainage that need careful inspection, and multi-level plans matter for anyone planning to age in place.
The method
How we do it in Jester Estates
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